Gsbs medical physics alumni sms year student thesis advisor. The farreaching subject matter of medical physics in radiation oncology. Dose sculpting with generalized equivalent uniform dose. Medical physics slides 7152019 1 clinical applications of frameless srs aapm annual meeting 2019 san antonio radiosurgery first defined by lars leksell 1951 the use of a stereotactically focused single high dose of ionizing radiation to destroy an intracranial target through the intact skull.
Heng li, annelise giebeler, lei dong, xiaodong zhang, falk poenisch, narayan sahoo, michael t. Robust beam orientation optimization for intensitymodulated proton therapy. Acraapm technical standard for the performance of proton. Petroccia and irina malajovich and andrew r barsky and alireza fotouhi ghiam and joshua jones and chunhao wang and wei zou and b. The division of medical physics has over 45 medical physicists working in penn medicine campus and. Wotao yin professor of mathematics, ucla verified email at ucla. Anderson cancer center, houston, texas 770 mark oldham. Professor of radiation oncology, department of radiation oncology, university of pennsylvania perelman school of medicine. The american association of physicists in medicine was founded in 1958 to.
Related content ctbased qa for compensators used in proton radiotherapy heng li, lifei zhang, lei dong et al. Aapm reports strategies for effective physics plan and. All content in this area was uploaded by lei dong on jan, 2020. Medical physics departments may be found in hospitals or. Lei dong faculty department of radiation oncology perelman.
Director of medical physics compensation, remuneration, funding. X dong, y lei, s tian, t wang, p patel, wj curran, ab jani, t liu, x yang. Barsky, andrew r, ogrady, fionnbarr, kennedy, christopher, taunk, neil k, dong, lei, metz, james m, li, taoran, freedman, gary m. Physics of medical imaging 112, 1124m, 2020 2020 left ventricular myocardium segmentation in coronary computed tomography angiography using 3d deep attention unet. Faculty medical physics residency perelman school of. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics. Lei dong, phd vice chair and director of the medical physics division. Introduction to radiological physics and radiation dosimetry by frank herbert attix, the physics of radiation therapy b.
International journal of radiation oncologybiologyphysics. Access to the latest issue is reserved only for the paid subscribers. Lei dong was a professor and deputy chair of md anderson cancer center in the department of radiation physics. Overview of clinical implementation of imrt isaac rosen, ph. View lei dong s profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Incorporating human and learned domain knowledge into training deep neural networks. A nationally recognized expert in radiation therapy, dr. Dosimetric characterization of the dual layer mlc system. Research done at cancer therapy and research center san antonio, tx. We provide technical expertise in stateoftheart radiation technologies and. Professor and director of medical physics division department of radiation oncology hospital of the university of pennsylvania aapm 2019 tulsan12 san antonio, tx 2 learning objectives learn how to produce ultrahigh dose rate flash using protons discuss current limited research on proton flash. He is considered an internationally renowned expert in image guided radiation therapy. Medical physicist credentials masters in medical physics from an accredited institution. Initial clinical experience treating patients with breast cancer on the.
He holds a bs in engineering physics and an ms in modern applied physics from tsinghua university, china. Lei dong professor, vice chair and director of medical. Scripps proton therapy center san diego, ca aapm annual meeting indianapolis, aug. Recent citations practical implications for the quality assurance of modulated radiation therapy techniques using point detector arrays steffi kantz et al. This report provides a comprehensive overview of how dosimeters, phantoms, and dose distribution analysis techniques should be used to support the commissioning and quality assurance requirements of an imrt program.
Aapm is a scientific, educational, and professional nonprofit organization devoted to the discipline of physics in medicine. There, he had a variety of roles, including setting up the physics. It is common practice in proton therapy facilities to divide the medical physics activities among several. Intensity modulated radiation therapy imrt poses a number of challenges for properly measuring commissioning data and quality assurance qa radiation dose distributions. This is the first in a series of five papers about physics and medicine. A novel concept to include uncertainties in the evaluation of stereotactic body radiation therapy after 4d dose accumulation using deformable image registration. Da kuban, sl tucker, l dong, g starkschall, eh huang, mr cheung. Purpose a new duallayer multileaf collimator mlc system with several improved characteristics was introduced with the varian halcyon treatment platform.
Lei dong faculty about us perelman school of medicine. Anderson cancer center, houston, usa 2program in medical physics, the university of texas graduate school of biomedical sciences at houston, houston, usa. He earned a phd in biomedical science medical physics from the university of texas health science center at houston. Pdf impact of multileaf collimator parameters on head.
Submillimeter accuracy in radiosurgery is not possible. A task group report is a technical report prepared by an official task group of the american association of physicists in medicine aapm. Lee3 1departments of radiation physics, the university of texas m. Medical physics also called biomedical physics, medical biophysics, applied physics in medicine, physics applications in medical science, radiological physics or hospital radio physics is, in general, the application of physics concepts, theories, and methods to medicine or healthcare. Lei dong rui zhang quantitative comparison of late effects following photon versus proton externalbeam radiation therapies.
The purpose of this course is to provide the medical physics student with an introduction to ionizing radiation and its use in medicine. Professor and director of medical physics division department of radiation oncology hospital of the university of pennsylvania aapm 2019 thasan45san antonio, tx 2 learning objectives charged particle specific motion issues current methods new and upcoming methods disclosures research grants. Dempsey viewray incorporated, cleveland, ohio 44106 lei dong m. On friday, july 2, 2010, the second annual medical physics program graduate student research retreat was held at the south campus facility.
San diego lei dong, phd, an accomplished medical physicist who has spent most of his career at the nations topranked university of texas md anderson cancer center, will join scripps health as chief medical physicist of the scripps proton therapy center most recently, dong served as professor and deputy chair of md andersons department of radiation physics. We are embarking systematic research on various important issues in these fields by combining our strengths in medical physics, engineering, biology, and medicine. Professor, vice chair and director of medical physics at university. This study evaluated this new mlcs impact on head and neck plan quality and delivery efficiency. Task group members eric ford, chair university of washington lei dong scripps proton therapy center. Dagnachew workie, medical physics resident class of 2007, who has recently taken up a position as hief physicist at sinai hospital in altimore, maryland. This work aims to impart a knowledge of the relations existing between physics and medicine in their latest state of development, and to embody in the pursuit of this object whatever experience the author has obtained during a long period of teaching this special branch of applied science. Master of medical physics and certificate in medical physics train future leaders for careers in medical physics specialties such as radiation therapy, diagnostic imaging, nuclear medicine, and health physics.
Disclosures for the following presenter lei dong, phd employment relationship university of pennsylvania. The university of western ontario physics 2600 intro to medical physics dept. Gs021093 introduction to medical physics i basic interactions. Selected publications gu wenbo, neph ryan, ruan dan, zou wei, dong lei, sheng ke. Medical physics program overview ucsf department of. International journal of radiation oncology biology physics 70 1, 6774, 2008. Overview and a word of thanks, medical physics deepdyve. The division of medical physics has over 45 medical physicists working in penn medicine campus and network sites. Number of students admitted to the medical physics. Dose recalculation and the doseguided radiation therapy dgrt. The ones marked may be different from the article in the profile. This cited by count includes citations to the following articles in scholar. Lei dong holds a bs in engineering physics and an ms in modern applied physics from tsinghua university, china.
Lee has recently joined the kaiseranaheim team after previously working at the florida proton. The information provided in this website is offered for the benefit of its members and the general public, however, aapm does not independently verify or substantiate the information provided on other websites that may be. Moran university of michigan, ann arbor, michigan 48109 james f. Lei dong university of pennsylvania verified email at uphs. Ghazal shafai erfani medical physics resident at emory university verified email at emory. This manuscript describes the experience of two institutions in commissioning the new halcyontm platform. Medical physicist is not required to be licensed or certified. Read overview and a word of thanks, medical physics on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. He then took a twoyear postdoctoral fellow position with lei dong, ph. Lei gong currently works at the department of optics and optical engineering, university of science and technology of china. We warmly welcome highquality contributions from researchers around the world. Medical physics residents should be placed using a matching program. Sangyeob lee, medical physics resident class of 2005, to orange ounty. Faculty honors and awards fellows of the american association of physicists in medicine the category of fellows honors members who have distinguished themselves by their contributions in research, education and leadership in the medical physics community.
A multipurpose quality assurance phantom for the small animal radiation research platform sarrp wilfred ngwa, panagiotis tsiamas, piotr zygmanski et al. Justin d philips, phd, joey cheung, phd, dae han, phd designed to meet the requirements of the campep residency, our program aims to prepare our residents for a career in clinical medical physics with a strong academic emphasis. Online doseguidance to account for interfractional motion during. Free medical physics books download ebooks online textbooks. Dong has spent most of his career at the university of texas md anderson cancer center in houston, texas. Patientspecific and generic immobilization devices for. Klein, phd, senior editor, lei dong, phd, harold paganetti, phd, and. Crosssection of radiation oncology medical physics academic and nonacademic members geographically diverse diverse work experience. A qualified medical physicist should meet the acr practice parameter for continuing medical education cme.
Steering committee medical physics residency perelman. Penns medical physics residency program is accredited by the commission on accreditation of medical physics educational programs campep, and is specially designed for graduatelevel individuals who wish to pursue a career as an independent radiation oncology physicist. Nuclear medicine physics dosimetry for nonuniform activity distributions. He served as professor and deputy chair of md andersons department of radiation physics and was director of advanced technology applications. Toward an evidencebased approach for selecting a treatment modality. Course evaluation assignments problem solving 30% 68 distributed throughout term. Tamie poepping physics 2600 course syllabus 2014 page 3 of 5 7. Physics 2600 introduction to medical physics 3 lecture hours, 0. Lei dong postdoctoral research associate mit senseable.
Medical physicist to join scripps proton therapy center. Lei dong, development of automated image analysis tools for verification of radiotherapy field accuracy with an electronic portal imaging device, art boyer. Ronald zhu chapter 24 treatment planning for pencil beam scanning tony lomax, alessandra bolsi, francesca albertini, and damien weber chapter 25 motion management antje knopf and shinichiro mori chapter 26 monitor unit mu calculation. We have both a twoyear and a threeyear track for our program that are comprised of both classroom work and clinical. During his 15year career at md anderson, dong has held a variety of clinical, research and teaching roles. Barsky, andrew r, ogrady, fionnbarr, kennedy, christopher, taunk, neil k, dong, lei, metz, james m, li, taoran. Lei dong, phd the college of liberal and professional. Igrt has limited clinical value due to lack of accurate tumor. Medical physics, as we usually understand the term, emerged as a distinct scientific discipline early in the 20th century in response to the growing use of ionising radiation in diagnosis and treatment. Chief medical physicist with more than a decade of proton experience, dr. Our vision is to be a premier laboratory of artificial intelligence ai, biomedical physics, and bioengineering in the world. A practical introduction to key physical principles as applied to medical imaging and radiation therapy. Penn radiation oncology is dedicated to a threepart mission of excellence in patient care, basic and translational research, and the education of residents and students. The target readership of the journal include professionals who work in medical physics, teaching and laboratory staff engaged in the research of medical physics, and students of medical physics, biophysics, biomedical engineering, medical and applied physics.
Lei dong is certified by the american board of radiology. May 01, 2005 read dose sculpting with generalized equivalent uniform dose, medical physics on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. Beadle stanford university verified email at stanford. Faculty medical physics graduate programs perelman. Plan quality, modulation complexity, delivery accuracy, and speed, authorheather m. Previous physics residents ucsf department of radiation. Alumni msphd medical physics md anderson cancer center. American association of physicists in medicine aapm.
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